Ladan Shams

Ladan Shams
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Southern California (MS, PhD), California State University, Northridge (BS)[1]
ThesisDevelopment of Visual Shape Primitives (1999)
Doctoral advisorChristoph von der Malsburg
Academic work
Disciplinepsychology
Sub-disciplinecognitive psychology
InstitutionsUCLA
Main interestsmultisensory perception, cognitive neuroscience

Ladan Shams is an American psychologist and professor of psychology, BioEngineering, and Neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is known for her works on multisensory perception and cognitive neuroscience. She is an associate editor of the journals Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Multisensory Research, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

  1. ^ Shams, Ladan; von der Malsburg, Christoph (1 June 1999). "Are object shape primitives learnable?". Neurocomputing. 26–27: 855–863. doi:10.1016/S0925-2312(98)00130-1. ISSN 0925-2312.
  2. ^ "Member Spotlight: UCLA's Multisensory Processing Lab". Biocom California.
  3. ^ "Ladan Shams, Ph.D." Multisensory Processing Lab.
  4. ^ "Is Seeing Believing? People Are Not Good at Identifying Where Sights, Sounds Originate". www.newswise.com.
  5. ^ "Can Sounds Alter What We See?". Psychology Today.
  6. ^ "Getting involved in UCLA's wide range of research opportunities". Daily Bruin.
  7. ^ "Put your glasses on to hear better, says a new study". Financialexpress. 11 December 2015.
  8. ^ "That's so 80s: Why NFL receivers have ditched tradition for 'swaggy' jersey numbers". ESPN. 5 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Did you hear it? Our vision and hearing is not very reliable". Zee News. 11 December 2015.